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...department store, older than Wanamaker's is Strawbridge & Clothier, established in 1868 by Quaker Justus C. Strawbridge, who was joined by Quaker Isaac H. Clothier. Into the big Clothier family, in 1885. was born Robert Clarkson Clothier. His father, brother of the founder, was by this time become Presbyterian and rich. Young Bob went to Princeton, where he became editor-in-chief of the Daily Princetonian and a member of the senior council. A good scholar though no Phi Beta Kappa man, he showed no interest in his family's mercantile tradition. "Bob" Clothier became employment manager...
Indigent, remote and preacherless churches have been promised a boon in the talking cinema. Year ago the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education got up a cinema service, performed by Presbyterian leaders (TIME, Jan. 26). For commercial purposes last week RCA Photophone Inc. dangled enticing names before U. S. congregations, releasing a nonsectarian. 25-min. evening church service. To a Manhattan studio preview went local churchmen, there to see & hear: Dr. Daniel Alfred ("Dan") Poling, famed Dry crusader, kinetic leader of U. S. youth, editor-in-chief of The Christian Herald; Dr. Charles Rosenbury Erdman of Princeton's First Presbyterian...
...Most, today, talk of Depression. Some endeavor to be cheery, smart, topical. Others are modern, "humanistic." Of the group who preach the real oldtime religion, none is more zealous than a towering, white-haired patriarch of the Northwest, Dr. Mark Allison Matthews. Pastor of the world's largest Presbyterian church (Seattle's First, with a congregation of 7,886), he spoke forthrightly to his brothers last week. In The Presbyterian he wrote...
...graduate of the Union Theological Seminary, Mr. Thomas later became a minister of the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York, but resigned during the war to serve successively as secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, editor of The World Tomorrow, and associate editor of The Nation...
Died. Rev. John Walter Vinson, 50, Presbyterian missionary in China since 1907, brother of President Robert Ernest Vinson of Western Reserve University; stabbed and decapitated by bandits who had kidnapped him after looting the mission and the town of Wangjiagieh...